Dear all:
The Philosophy and History of Physics Reading Group meets again this term,
Tuesdays at 4.30 till 6.00 pm in the Board Room, History and philosophy of
science department, Free School lane. As always, we will follow peopleâs
interests; but we expect to adopt the theme: spacetime.
So We begin on Tuesday 21 January at 4.30. We will begin with a short
classic, by David Malament from 1977 (Nous), called: Causal theories of
time and the conventionality of simultaneity.
Discussion will be led by Jeremy Butterfield and Bryan Roberts.
It is available on Jstor at:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2214766?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
But if you want a copy sent to you, please contact me (J Butterfield)
Though a reading group should have only one official reading(!), Bryan has
a draft paper developing the themes: Which we hope he gets to discuss.
Again: If anyone would like a copy o f this, please contact me (J
Butterfield)
We also announce that Malament has recently posted his time honoured notes
on special relativity on the Pittsburgh archive. And we may well work
through some of this elegant (though concise!) material in later weeks.
They are at:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/16760/
best wishes,
J Butterfield, M Farr and B Roberts
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Jeremy Butterfield:
Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ: Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile)
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